Elements of Debating eBook

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be found by looking up the desired topic in:
The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature,
or Poole’s Index.

If the matter being studied deals with civics, economics,
or sociology, look in: Bliss, Encyclopaedia
of Social Reform,etc.; Lalor, Cyclopaedia
of Political Science, etc.; Larned, History
of Ready Reference and Topical Reading; Bowker
and lies, Reader’s Guide in Economics,
etc.

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Statesman’s Yearbook, Whitaker’s Almanac,
World Almanac, Chicago Daily News Almanac, Hazell’s
Almanac, U.S. Census Reports.

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APPENDIX II

ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE THE ISSUES OF THE QUESTION

The two specimens that immediately follow are analyses
of the same question by students of the same university.
The first is a selection from the speech made by Mr.
Raymond S. Pruitt in the Towle Debate of Northwestern
University Law School in 1911. The second is the
introduction to the speech made by Mr. Charles Watson
of the Northwestern University Law School in the 1911
debate with the Law School of the University of Southern
California. Students should observe how the two
speakers determine somewhat different issues.

Resolved, That in actions against an employer
for death or injury of an employee sustained in the
course of an industrial employment the fellow-servant
rule and the rule of the assumption of risk as defined
and interpreted by the common law, should be abolished.

Mr. Pruitt, speaking for the affirmative:

The question which we discuss tonight
is partly economic and partly legal. By that
I mean that viewing it from the standpoint of legal
liability, we possibly can agree with the gentlemen
of the Negative that the employer should respond
in damages to his injured employee, only when
the injury has been caused by the employer’s
own fault. But, on the other hand, viewing
the same problem from an economic standpoint,
you cannot deny, that, when through no fault of his
own, a worker is injured in the course of an industrial